A guide to the fashion industry, featuring case studies, interviews and profiles. Tracing the development of the fashion industry, this book looks at how fashion can be understood from both social and cultural perspectives. It includes chapters on specialist topics; expert advice on careers in fashion retailing; and more.

The internationally renowned sculptor, Rachel Whiteread is to be the latest artist to take on the challenge of Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall in autrumn 2005, following in the footsteps of Bruce Nauman's haunting sound installation Raw Materials. Whiteread is an appropriate choice for the commission as some of her best-known works have seen her engaged in a dialogue with architecture and public .

Neils's examination of the Parthenon frieze's visual language offers new insight into this important monument.

Explores the various subjects, materials, techniques and styles utilized by contemporary sculptors. This book provides an illustrated overview of contemporary sculpture.

This book is a dynamic tour through the life and the mind of artists Bob and Roberta Smith.

In 1970 Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most innovative and provocative artists of the twentieth century, created the landmark earthwork Spiral Jetty at Rozel Point on Utah's Great Salt Lake. This dramatic and highly influential work forms a coil 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide and stretches out counterclockwise into the lake's translucent red water. Composed of black basalt rocks and ...

The opening of the Acropolis Museum in Athens in spring 2008 provides the opportunity to re-state the case for the return of the Elgin Marbles to Athens. This title makes a contribution to ensuring that the Marbles return to their place of origin.

A guide to sculpting techniques in various media, from marble and concrete to bronze, wood and resin. It devotes separate sections for each media, demonstrating the array of textural and surface effects that can be created with each material.

This volume shows, in colour step-by-step sequences, how to trace, perforate, emboss, cut and tint parchment paper to create greeting cards and bookmark designs. There are 22 projects shown in colour, together with full-size pattern and easy-to-follow instructions for each one.

A comprehensive presentation of the work of German sculptor and constructive artist, Vera Rohm.

Citing a range of examples, this surveys the ways in which artists have been influenced by museum systems and made their works into simulations of the museum, as well as how they have questioned the role of museums, observed their practices, intervened in them and helped to redefine them.

Documents the entire collection and examines it as a whole. This work features documentary photographs, a section of colour plates, and detailed ethnographic descriptions of each piece, providing an account of Picasso's relationship with African and Oceanic art.

This guide to the craft of quilling helps readers to learn to make greetings cards, Christmas decorations, bridal accessories, decorative items for the home and three-dimensional objects. Paper strips, one simple tool and a bit of glue is all that is needed.

Sacred bronzes of Southern India.

Many cemeteries contain 19th-century sculptures that present idealized images of women, elaborately posed and carefully sculpted. David Robinson's photographs capture the beauty and mystery of these sculptures. The foreword explores recurring themes such as the conflation of death and the erotic.

This is a highly illustrated reference for both beginners and slightly more advanced sculpture students, covering all the basics they would need to do a wide range of sculpting activities.

This book is the definitive guide to Gormley's career, an extensive large format publication which is the first major retrospective of his most significant works.

Thorvaldsens Museum opened in central Copenhagen in 1848. The great Danish sculptor had arranged to donate his own works of art and his collections to the city, provided that the museum be built for the purpose; it would become his tomb. The Museum was decorated with a colourful frieze depicting the triumphant arrival of Thorvaldsen and his magnificent works of art in Copenhagen from the artist's

Italian monumental sculpture of the 19th and early 20th centuries is among the most remarkable ever made, and remains surprisingly unknown. Its emotional charge is caught in this collection of specially taken photographs, while the scholarly texts analyse the iconographic, cultural and art historical background to the works.